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SAPtips Sample Basic Procure To Pay Purchasing
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Written by Jocelyn Hayes
Published by Klee Associates, Inc.
Copyright Klee Associates, Inc., 2010

Unit 5: Purchasing
The Purchasing module of SAP Materials Management is a key component in
the Procure to Pay Business Process. Purchasing relies on master data such as
Material Master, Vendor Master, and Info Records. The master records contain
data regarding how the material is purchased and allowed to be received.
This unit covers the following:
Overview of Purchasing
Purchasing master data
Purchasing document types
Purchase requisitions
Purchase orders
Outline agreements
RFQ/Quotations
Optimized purchasing
Condition types with demonstration and exercise
Release Strategies with demonstration and exercise

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Overview of Purchasing

Purchasing integrates tightly with other SAP modules such as Financial
Accounting, Sales and Distribution, and Controlling. Purchasing causes
commitments to be posted to Controlling; and when goods are received, posting
can be made against cost centers. Also, when goods are received, SAP posts
an Accounting document to Financial Accounting (FI) against a specified General
Ledger account. Sales and Distribution passes requirements to Purchasing in
the form of Procurement Proposals generated during MRP.
The following process flow diagram depicts many components of the Purchasing
module. Master data is threaded throughout the Purchasing process. The
diagram also shows integration with pre-defined processes such as MRP,
Inventory Management, and Invoice Verification.

Master Data:
Material Master
Master Data:
Vendor Master
Master Data:
Info Record
Convert Planned
Order to
Purchase
Requisition
MRP
generates
Procurement
Proposal
Using Source
Determination,
assign Source to
Purchase
Requisition
Contract or
Scheduling
Agreement
Release
Purchase
Requisition
utilizing Release
Procedure
Convert Preq to
Purchase Order
Inventory
Management
Goods
Receipt
Invoice
Verification
Invoice
Receipt

Purchasing starts when the MRP generates a procurement proposal (a
requirement to trigger a purchasing activity), which can be for direct consumption
or for stock.
When goods are received for direct consumption, a financial posting is
made to the account assignment to which the purchase order (PO) line
item was assigned.
When goods are received into stock, the value is posted to the Inventory
G/L account.
Procurement happens via purchase orders or outline agreements. SAP defines
an Outline Agreement as a contract or scheduling agreement against which
release orders are placed as quantities are purchased. (Outline Agreements are
covered in the Purchasing Documents Types section of this unit.) Procurement
proposals can be triggered by MRP, or Consumption Based Planning, or directly
via a requisition or PO.

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For the purchasing process, we cover:
Various purchasing document types
Optimizing the purchasing process with sourcing, quantities, and
automation
Condition types
Purchasing release strategies

Purchasing Master Data

Purchasing uses three pieces of master data:
Material Master
Vendor Master
Information Record
These pieces of master data are covered in detail in Units 3 of this manual. The
key fields for Purchasing from these master data elements are reviewed in this
unit.
Material Master: Purchasing View
The purpose of the Purchasing view is to maintain data relevant to the
Purchasing process, such as the purchasing group responsible for procuring the
material.


Key fields at the plant level on purchasing view are noted below with a (P)
following the field name in this table:

Field Use
Order unit Maintain this field if you order this material
in a different unit of measure than the Base
Unit of Measure field.
Var. OUn Activate the Var. OUn (variable order unit)
field to use a different unit of measure than
is recorded in the Order unit field. It is
generally used for specific purchase
requisitions or purchase orders.
Purchasing Group (P) A purchasing group can represent a single
buyer or a group of buyers. This allows you
to assign responsibility of certain materials
to a specific group.
Configuration of purchasing groups can be
found in the IMG here:
Materials Management Purchasing
Create Purchasing Groups



Field Use
X-plant matl status From the cross-plant material status drop
down, you can select from a list of
restrictions how the material is purchased or
placed in inventory. Setting this field on the
Basic Data screen locks the status of the
material across all plants.
Plant-sp matl status (P) Same as the X-plant matl status field, but
this sets the list of restrictions on how the
material is purchased or placed in inventory
at the plant level.
Valid from (P) The date from which the Plant-sp matl
status field setting is valid.
Tax ind f. material (P) Indicates whether a material is taxable or
tax exempt.
Autom. PO (P) Set this indicator if you wish to automatically
create purchase orders as they convert
from requisitions. This bypasses the Create
PO screen and creates the purchase order
in the background.
SAPTip
Use this function to automate the
transaction to create a purchase order.
Purchasing value key This key defines the number of days after
which to send a vendor a reminder for a late
delivery. With it ride shipping instructions,
order acknowledgement, and delivery
tolerance limits
Configuration of Purchasing Value Key can
be found in the IMG here:
Material Master Define Purchasing Value
Keys
Unlimited overdelivery
Be careful. Selecting this box means
that you want to receive goods against
a purchase order for an indefinite time
period (maybe forever).
GR processing time (P) Number of days that your shipping
department takes to process a goods
receipt and put the inventory in stock.
Post to insp. stock (P) Automatically posts this material to
inspection stock.



Vendor Master: Purchasing View
The Purchasing data view includes information regarding the conditions used on
the Purchase Orders, Sales data information, Control Data, and default data for
materials.



Key fields on the Purchasing data view of the Vendor Master appear in the
following table:

Field Use
Terms of paymnt The terms of payment maintained in this
field on the Purchasing data screen are the
default on the purchase order.
Configuration of the Terms of Payment can
be found in the IMG here:
Vendor Master Define Terms of Payment
Incoterms Incoterms describe ownership of the goods.
The most common terms are FOB
Destination and FOB Origin.
FOB Destination means that the shipper
owns the goods until they arrive
successfully at the destination. It usually
refers to Domestic shipment. FOB Origin is
the opposite of FOB Destination meaning
the recipient owns the materials as soon as
they leave the shippers dock.
FCA Origin is used for International
Shipments with the same ownership rules
as FOB Origin and DDU Destination is used
for International shipments with the same
ownership rules as FOB Destination.
Other less common Incoterms exist. Find
them in the IMG here:
Vendor Master Check Incoterms
Schema group, vendor This field determines the calculation
schema or pricing procedure used to figure
pricing for this vendor. Maintain this field if
the vendor uses a calculation schema that
differs from the schema group defined for
the purchasing organization.
Menu path for configuring the schema
group can be found in the IMG here:
Conditions Define Price Determination
Process Define Schema Group



Info Record: Purchasing Screens
The Information Record (Info Record) links the vendor to the material and
provides information about when and at what cost the vendor can supply the
material.
Viewing Organization Data 1 in the Info Record
The purchasing organization data screen defines control parameters such as
delivery time and over and under delivery tolerances, and pricing conditions.



Key fields in purchasing views of the Info Record are noted in the following table:

Field Use
Plnd delytTime This is the planned delivery time in number
of days from when the vendor receives the
purchase order to when the goods arrive at
your plant.
Underdel tol.

These two fields define the percent of
tolerance that you will accept under and
over the delivery timeframe for the order. If
the delivery falls outside of these bounds,
you can configure the system to issue a
warning or error message to your Receiving
person who enters the goods receipt.
Overdel tol.
Purch. Group The purchasing group here represents the
group responsible for this Info Record. It
defaults into the planned orders or purchase
requisitions that are automatically
generated during the planning run.
Standard qty This is the standard order quantity of this
material to order from this vendor.
The standard quantity cannot be less
than what appears in the Minimum qty
field.
Unlimited Checking this box allows your vendor to
deliver an unlimited quantity of the material
in a shipment to you.
Shipping instr. This field sets default shipping instructions
for the purchasing documents.
Net Price The price of the item based on the quantity
specified in the Standard qty. field.
Incoterms Sets the default Incoterms for the
purchasing documents.



Viewing Text Overview in the Info Record
The text overview screen of the info record provides space to include long text
which is copied to various purchasing documents.

Key fields in the Text Overview screen of the Info Record are noted in the
following table:

Field Use
Info record note Descriptive text that DOES NOT transfer to
the purchase order.
Purchase order text Descriptive text that DOES transfer to the
purchase order.



Purchasing Document Types

SAP utilizes various document types to represent business documents like
Purchase Orders, Sales Orders, and Production Orders. Purchasing has
multiple documents including Purchase Requisitions, Purchase Orders, Outline
Agreements, Request for Quote (RFQ), and Quotations. Each of these
documents can have multiple document types that allow you to have different
types of purchase orders or requisitions. For example, in standard SAP, you
will find Framework Orders (like a Blanket PO), Standard POs, and Stock
Transport POs.

Each purchasing document type can have its own screen behavior, number
range for the documents, and release strategy for approvals.

The following sections cover specifics regarding each purchasing document type
and how it relates to the others.

Purchase Requisitions
A purchase requisition is an internal document meaning that you do not submit
it to a vendor. It is not a binding or legal contract to purchase goods or services
from a vendor. A purchase requisition, therefore, does not cause commitments
in the Financial Accounting module.
Purchase requisitions are entered either directly or indirectly.
Direct entry uses transaction ME51N or following the menu path:
Materials Management Purchasing Purchase Requisition Create
Indirect entry happens from MRP, Project System Networks, Plant
Maintenance Orders, or Production Orders.
A purchase requisition can require a release or approval before it is converted to
a purchase order or outline agreement (contract or scheduling agreement).
Configuration of Release Procedures is covered later in this unit, along with a
demonstration and exercise.
Purchase requisitions contain only the valuation price not including taxes or other
conditions. Taxes and other conditions are determined when the purchase order
is generated.
The Create Purchase Requisition screen has three sections:
Header that contains the texts relevant to the entire requisition
Item Overview that contains an overview of all items on the requisition
Item Detail that contains specific details of each item
The screen shot below illustrates the three sections:


A purchase requisition line item is assigned to an Item Category, which
determines the procurement type. The following item categories are available:

The item categories determine how the material is to be processed in Inventory
Management.
A procurement item for a service will require a service entry receipt
instead of a goods receipt.
A stock transfer item will require stock movement from one plant or
storage location to another.
A consignment item will be put into vendor consignment stock instead of
regular stock.
A subcontractor item specifies the items you will be sending to the
subcontractor to make the assembly required.
In a later section, this unit covers how to configure your purchase requisition
document types. You can control how the screens and fields behave (make
them required, display only, or optional) and hide unnecessary fields.



SAPTip and Trick
It is possible to create a requisition by copying a previously entered
requisition. Do the following to copy a previously entered requisition:
1. From the Purchase Requisition Create transaction, click
to turn on the Document Overview.

2. Click the right portion of the Selection Variant icon, where the arrow
points down. A drop-down selection will appear:

3. Select My purchase requisitions if you wish to copy from a requisition you
created previously.
4. You will now see a list of requisitions you have created in the Document
overview.

5. You may wish to change the layout to show the vendor name instead of the
requisition number. To do so, click to the right of the layout icon, and select
Change layout:


6. Select the fields by which to sort the list of requisitions. In this example,
Vendor Name (Desired Vendor) is selected:

7. Click the Change Breakdown icon and find the field you selected in the
previous step. Move it to the Sort criteria:

8. Notice the result:



You now know how to use the Document overview available in both the
Purchase Requisition (ME51N) and the Purchase Order (ME21N) transactions.

Purchase Orders
Like purchase requisitions, purchase orders are used for various procurement
types like subcontracting, stock transfers, services, etc. A Purchase Order (PO)
can also require a Release Procedure; and depending on your business
requirements, it may make sense to have a Purchase Requisition Release
procedure and a Purchase Order Release procedure. This is common in
companies with Senior Purchasing Agents that process the final approval and
send the PO to the Vendor, but a junior Purchasing Agent is responsible for
creating the PO or copying the requisition to a PO.
When the PO is generated, taxes and other pricing conditions are determined.
The Condition Types section of this manual provides more detail on Purchasing
pricing conditions and how they are applied to the PO.
The Account Assignment can either be copied from the Purchase Requisition or
directly entered into the PO.
The purchase order represents a commitment to buy the items or services listed
in it. Not only is purchase order a commitment to the vendor, it is listed as a
financial commitment in the Financial Accounting module.
The Purchase Order screen has a similar layout to the Purchase Requisition
screen. The screen is divided into three sections:
Header Data
Item Overview
Item Details
The following screen shot displays the elements of a Purchase Order screen in
SAP:


In the purchase order, you can also review the PO history for each line item in
the line item details portion of the screen. The history tab will show any material
documents, such as goods receipts and invoice receipts, posted against the line
item.
It is possible to use various partner roles on the purchase order. If you wish to
use a different Ordering Address, you can select a different partner name on the
header Partners tab:



Outline Agreements
Outline agreements represent long term agreements with vendors. Two forms of
outline agreements exist in SAP:
Scheduling agreements
Contracts
It is possible to setup a Release procedure (approvals) for both types of outline
agreements. This means that you can set up a different approval process for the
different purchasing document types. You may have specific people that approve
a contract (Legal, Finance) versus a purchase requisition (Cost Center Manager).
You can create an outline agreement directly or copy one from a Purchase
Requisition or RFQ/Quotation.
A scheduling agreement and a contract are essentially the same, except that a
Scheduling Agreement includes a Delivery Schedule by line item.
Scheduling Agreement
A scheduling agreement is a long term agreement with a vendor that specifies a
designated delivery schedule. A scheduling agreement contains a delivery
schedule.
Contract
A contract is a long term agreement that can have release orders issued against
it. A release order is another form of purchase order, which is tied to the contract
and depletes the target value or quantity of the contract. A contract contains a
validity period and either a target value or target quantity, and it is classified as
either a Value Contract or Quantity Contract.
Some 'gotchas' exist for Contracts.
You must select a purchasing organization and purchasing group for a
contract, and they must match in the release order. This may cause a
problem if you have created a Centrally Agreed Contract because you
may wish it to cover more than one purchasing organization One
remedy is to use a reference purchasing organization and similarly use a
reference purchasing group. The Reference Purchasing Organization
was discussed in the Organizational Structure Unit in this manual. The
reference purchasing group is not an official SAP term, but one coined
here to propose a solution to this gotcha.
If you utilize Source List (a list to maintain which vendors must, can, or
cannot sell you a product within a specified time range) for the plant in
which the contract is created, you must maintain the contract before the
source list. If you do not follow these steps, you will not be able to issue
any release orders against the contract.
Contracts have additional item categories not found in other purchasing
documents. You will find Item Category M for unknown materials and
Item Category W for Material Group.
Item Category M is useful if you do not wish to specify a material
master, but rather just a description of the item to be ordered.


Item Category W is similar, but you enter a Material Group in
addition to a Material Description and it is only available on Value
Contracts.

RFQ/Quotations
A Request for Quotation (RFQ) allows you to issue a request to your vendor for a
quote on a specific item or service. The Quotation is the official response from
your vendor, which can be stored in SAP. In SAP, the RFQ and Quotation are
both actually stored in the same internal document. The system will also
propose the most favorable quote based on your entries from the Quotations.
Since an RFQ is used for requesting and recording quotations, it is not possible
to maintain any account assignments in the document. An RFQ can have an
approval process or release procedure if your company requires approvals
before you send RFQ to vendors for bidding.
The following diagram represents the process flow for RFQs and Quotations:

Create RFQ
Select Vendors to
whom to submit
the RFQ
Submit RFQ to
Vendors
Receive
Quotation from
Vendor
Enter Quotation
into SAP,
including price
and conditions
Execute Price
Comparison List
Accept
Quotation?
Create Info
Record for
Vendor/Material
Set Rejection
Indicator in
Quotation
Yes
No



Optimized Purchasing

Many companies fail to take advantage of Purchasing Optimization in SAP. They
manually assign vendors and pricing conditions one document at a time. Many
streamlined and automated processes can be built into the SAP Purchasing
module.
Here are some concepts that can optimize purchasing:
MRP generates independent and dependent requirements based on the
Planning file entries (review Unit 6 for details about using MRP to
optimize purchasing)
Source determination
Automatically creating purchase orders from purchase requisitions
Optimizing order quantity (not covered in this class but will be covered in
the Advanced Purchasing class)

Source Determination
You have many options in SAP when you need to assign a source of supply to a
purchase requisition; and you can use any of the following documents to
determine the source of supply:
Source List the source list specifies a certain vendor during a specific
time period for a material and the vendor is considered fixed.
Info Record the information record contains information about the
vendor-material relationship. It states how much you pay for the material
from that vendor, how long it takes to get the materials from the vendor,
and other delivery and terms of payment information.
Contract if the system determines that the source of supply has a
contract, that contract is referred to as the source of supply in the
purchase requisition; then, a release purchase order is created against
the contract.
Scheduling Agreement if the system determines the source of supply to
have a scheduling agreement, that scheduling agreement is referred to
as the source of supply in the purchase requisition; then, a scheduling
agreement delivery is created against the scheduling agreement.
Quota Arrangement this is an arrangement between you and your
vendor to purchase a specified number of units over a specified length of
time (or frequency).
Material Master (for internal procurement) if a plant is referred to as the
source of supply for a material, a stock transport order is generated for
the purchase requisition.
The system can assist you in determining the possible sources of supply, and
you can have the source of supply determined automatically via a background
job.


So what if you have multiple sources of supply maintained for a single material?
SAP does have an order of priority that it uses to determine the source of supply
for a material. The following list of documents shows the order that SAP uses to
determine the source of supply:
1. Quota Arrangement the vendor is included in the quota arrangement.
2. Source List if multiple selections are available, you are prompted to select
from the list.
3. Outline Agreement if source determination occurs online (versus in the
background) and SAP finds an info record, you see both the Outline
Agreement(s) and the Info Record(s) as options.
4. Info Record the vendor is maintained on the info record.
Note about background processing:
If the system finds more than one Outline Agreement for the material, it will
not assign a source of supply unless one is flagged as a regular vendor.
SAPTip
It is possible to maintain a source list from various master data and
purchasing documents. You can navigate to the source list for a material from
outline agreements and info records.
You can also manually maintain the Source List via transaction ME01.
To view the source list for a material, use transaction ME0M.
To analyze what source lists exist for a material within a validity period, use
transaction ME06.
You can also generate a source list automatically via transaction ME05.

Automatically Create Purchase Orders from Purchase
Requisitions
Only use the functionality of automatically creating purchase orders from
purchase requisitions if you are confident in how you maintained your Purchasing
master data and outline agreements. You have the option of allowing the system
to assign the source of supply and convert the PR to the PO, or it can simply
convert the assigned PR to a PO (a safer route to follow until you completely
trust your source lists).
Another benefit of using this process based on your configuration settings is
that you can configure SAP to combine multiple requisitions for the same vendor
onto one PO.
If you do utilize source determination as part of your automated process, the
system keeps a list of unprocessed purchase requisitions for which no source
could be determined, and then you can handle the list manually.
To allow automatic processing, you must set both the material and vendor. The
following screen print from the Material Master Purchasing view shows where to
set the indicator:



Condition Types

Conditions refer to pricing rules in SAP Purchasing. You can maintain conditions
related to discounts, surcharges, taxes, freight, and just about anything you want
to add to the pricing procedure for Purchasing. Conditions can be used in
Purchase Orders, Info Records, Quotations, and Outline Agreements.
Additionally, you can also maintain vendor conditions on the Vendor Master
record, which then apply to all purchasing documents created for that vendor.
Two types of conditions exist in SAP: time-dependent and time-independent.
Time-Dependent Conditions
Time-dependent conditions allow you to assign validity periods and scales to the
pricing. Info Records, Contracts, Quotations, and Scheduling Agreements all
contain time-dependent conditions, unless otherwise specified in Customizing.
Time-dependent conditions will generate subtotals for net price and effective
price.
Time-dependent conditions can also be entered generically against a vendor, a
vendor sub-range (a grouping of materials offered by the vendor), a material
condition group, material group, material type, incoterms, and invoicing party.


Vendor Subrange is maintained in the Info Record here:

Time-Independent Conditions
Time-independent conditions have no validity period or scales and so are the
opposite of time-dependent conditions. Purchase order conditions are time-
independent.
SAPTip
If you wish to share conditions across purchasing organizations, create a
Reference Purchasing Organization and maintain them at that level.

SAP utilizes the Condition Technique pricing procedure to arrive at a net cost for
your purchases. The same procedure is used here in Purchasing and in SAP
Sales Pricing. It has five main components that must be understood:
Condition Type represents various factors that lead to the net price. It
can include discounts, surcharges, freight, base price, and taxes.
Condition Table includes the fields that are used in your access
sequence.
Access Sequence when you create a condition record, you select an
access sequence that determines the level at which you would like to
maintain your condition. For example, in maintaining a condition record
for a Vendor Discount, you may wish to maintain it at the vendor level or
by the combination of vendor and purchasing organization. To



differentiate the order in which the system accesses these maintenance
levels, you assign multiple condition tables to your access sequence and
define their order. The example provided in this section illustrates the
use of this component.
Calculation Schema includes all of the condition types you will use to
determine your net price. The term calculation schema in Purchasing is
the same component that is called Pricing Procedure in the Sales and
Distribution module.
Condition Record is master data that is maintained to store pricing
information.

Demonstration and Exercise: Create and Test
Condition Record
In this demonstration and exercise, we will create a condition record to maintain
a discount for our vendor to be used on purchase orders.

We will perform the following steps in this demonstration and exercise:
Step 1: Create Condition Record
Step 2: Create Purchase Order to Test Condition Record

Step 1: Create Condition Record
1. Follow the menu path:
Materials Management Purchasing Master Data Conditions Other
Create
OR use Transaction: MEK1
2. Enter the following Condition type and click :



Field Value
Condition Type ZL99
Key Combination Vendor
Vendor <vendor you created in Unit 3>
Amount 10

3. Key Combination is a term used to describe the fields used to define the
condition record. For this example, select Purch.Org/Vendor and click :

4. Enter the Purchasing Organization, Vendor, and discount percent in the
Amount field as shown below. You can also modify the validity period on this
condition record.

Field Value
Purchasing Organization 3000
Vendor <your vendor from unit 3>
Amount 10

5. Press Enter and click to save to condition record.

Step 2: Create Purchase Order to Test Condition Record
To test the condition record, enter a purchase order for your vendor.
Materials Management Purchasing Purchase Order Create
Vendor/Supplying Plant Known



OR use Transaction: ME21N
2. Enter the following and press Enter:

Field Value
Vendor <vendor you created in Unit 3>
Account Assignment
Category
<leave blank>
Material <material you created in Unit 3>
Quantity 100
Delivery Date 2 weeks from today
Net Price 10
Currency USD
Per 1
Ordering Unit PC
Plant 3000

3. Once you press Enter, you will be need to click on the Org Data tab to
complete some additional fields as shown below.

Field Value
Purchasing Org 3000
Purchasing Group 2XX
Company Code 3000



4. Click on the Item Data section to expand and review the Conditions tab:

What is the Net Price for the PO? ______________________________

5. Save your purchase order and record the number here: ________________

The results are shown below in the header Conditions:

And in the Item Detail section of the PO on the Conditions tab:

And you can see that you can override the discount in the item conditions since
the value 10% is not grayed out in change mode.



Clicking on the button will show you the price procedure used to
price this document. Review the screen shot below:

Release Strategy

Release strategies are used in SAP Purchasing to drive the approval process of
a purchasing document.

The table below illustrates the example I will follow here. The release strategy
(or levels needed for approval) is determined using these values:
1. Purchasing group
2. Overall value of purchase requisition
3. Account Assignment Category = K (Cost Center)

Department Position Approval Limits
299 Operations Manager Up to $5K
299 Operations Director Up to $200K
299 Operations CFO Over $200K


Approval Matrix Example

The Release procedure example presented in this manual is for an Overall
Release procedure, which means that someone approving the requisition
approves the entire requisition, not each line. This simplifies the action required
by the approver, who has only to approve once; however, this does restrict you
from allowing your users to combine purchase requisitions across departments.

Demonstration and Exercise: Create Purchase
Requisition and Release Purchase Requisition

In this demonstration and exercise, we will perform these steps:
Step 1: Create Purchase Requisition
Step 2: Release Purchase Requisition

Step 1: Create Purchase Requisition
Logistics Materials Management Purchasing Purchasing Requisition
Create
2. Enter the following and press Enter:



Field Value
Account Assignment
Category (A)
K
Short text Non-stock item
Quantity 1
Unit EA
Delivery Date <two weeks from today>
Material Group 001
Plant 3000
Purchasing Group 299
Requisitioner LEARNXX
Valuation Price 6000

3. Once you press Enter, you will need to complete the following screen:

Field Value
Cost Center 328

4. Press Enter to accept the warning messages:

5. Save the purchase requisition.

Record your purchase requisition number: ____________________



Step 2: Release Purchase Requisition
Many methods exist to release the purchase requisition. You can do a mass
release of requisitions, you can use SAP's workflow feature that directs the
requisitions for which you are responsible for approving to your inbox, or you can
release individually requisitions. For this demo and exercise, we will perform an
individual release.

To release the purchase requisition, follow these steps:

Logistics Materials Management Purchasing Purchasing Requisition
Release Individual Release

2. You may get the following message:

3. SAP remembers the last requisition on which you were working and it may
not have required a release or may already be released. Press Enter to
bypass the message.

4. To change to your requisition from the previous step, click the Other
Requisition icon.

5. Enter your requisition from the previous step and press Enter:



Field Value
Purchase Requisition <enter the requisition number from the
previous step>

6. Click on the tab to view the release strategy:

Notice you are still in display mode of the requisition. Click the Change
icon to get back into the release transaction this is tricky and a good
technique to remember.

Note there are two release levels for this requisition, so two people will need
to approve the requisition.
7. To release the requisition, click the Release icon. Since we do not
have security set up in our system, you will actually be able to approve both
levels of the release strategy. In your live SAP system, an individual should
only be able to release one level.
You can also click to reject the requisition by clicking the Reject icon.
8. Save the released requisition.


Summary
In this unit, we reviewed the master data used to support Purchasing in the
Procure to Pay Business Process, we reviewed the various document types
available in the purchasing module, and we discussed some methods of
optimizing purchasing such as source determination and automatic creation of
purchase orders. We also reviewed the use of condition types to automatically
determine prices for our vendors and materials. And finally, we reviewed how to
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receipts into stock of a purchase order.

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